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Nov 7, 2016 · This graph can help provide more accurate numbers in regard to the mixed race population, and it can also be useful by helping visualize the demographic patterns of the preceding decades. This population pyramid works to show that the youth, people of ages 0 to 9, are by far the largest group of people with mixed race parents.
Jan 10, 2017 · Some people have parents or ancestors who are not all members of the same socially constructed race. It seems obvious, especially in the case of people who have both black and white parents or ancestors, that their social construction as mixed has not received the same attention as the social construction of those who are either black or white.
- A Mixed Racial Background, But Not Multiracial
- Fading Multicultural Identity
- How Biracial Adults Think Others See Them
- Attempts to Influence How Others See Their Appearance
- Pressure to Identify as One Race
- Changes in Identity Over The Life Course
- Multiracial Background and Personal Identity
Only about four-in-ten adults (39%) with a background including more than one race consider themselves to be multiracial, while the majority of these adults (61%) do not. Among adults with multiple races in their background who do not consider themselves to be multiracial, about half say their physical appearance (47%) and/or family upbringing (47%...
The survey finds that multiracial identity quickly fades with the generations. Among those whose ties to a mixed racial background come from a great-grandparent or earlier ancestor—a group that is not included among the analysis of multiracial Americans throughout this report—only 13% consider themselves to be multiracial. The share roughly doubles...
How do multiracial adults believe strangers passing them on the street see their racial background? The answer to that question varies substantially by mixed-race group. But one common thread runs through these responses: Few say they are viewed as multiracial. According to the survey, only 9% of all multiracial adults believe they are perceived as...
At some point in their lives, about one-in-five multiracial adults (21%) have dressed or behaved in a certain way in order to influence how others saw their race. According to the survey, about one-in-ten multiracial adults have talked (12%), dressed (11%) or worn their hair (11%) in a certain way in order to affect how others saw their race. A sim...
About one-in-five multiracial adults (21%) say they have felt pressure from friends, family or from society in general to choose one of the races in their background over another. Multiracial adults feel the heat to identify as just one race more from “society in general” (15%) than from family members (11%) or friends (9%). (The survey did not ask...
An individual’s racial background is fixed at birth but his or her racial identity can change over the course of a lifetime, the Pew Research survey found. About three-in-ten adults (29%) who now think of themselves as more than one race say they once thought of themselves as only one race. An identical share moved the opposite way: 29% of those wh...
Multiracial adults and the general public generally define who they are around the same set of core characteristics and values, and they give the same relative importance to their racial background. About half of all Americans (51%) say their gender is “essential” to their personal identity, and virtually the same proportion of multiracial adults a...
The overarching premise of this work is that Multiracial people do not form racial identity in a vacuum (Huffman 1994; Townsend et al. 2012). Biracial people are shaped not only by their personal interests and proclivities, but also by the social interactions they have with the greater society. As Gans (1997) notes, identity development does ...
Jan 14, 2017 · Attempts to theorize the lived experience of mixed people therefore rely on the ‘idea that personhood is socially constructed’ (Dewan 2008: 35). Implicit in the idea of personhood is the understanding that we are social beings who form ourselves within social relationships (Ifekwunigwe 1999 ; Mahtani 2005 ; Parker and Song 2001 ; Rockquemore and Brunsma 2002 ; Root 2006).
- Fiona Peters
- 2016
Apr 22, 2020 · Mixed messages: Multiracial identities in the “color-blind” era. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. An interdisciplinary collection of original, critical scholarship on multiraciality. This volume was the first to bring together the burgeoning social-scientific scholarship conducted during the lead-up to the 2000 census change.
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May 24, 2022 · Addressing massive budget cuts for the humanities and social sciences, Brazilian Secretary of Education, Abraham Weintraub, used the term vira-lata (mutt) (Andrade, 2019) on multiple occasions to emphasize Brazil’s mixed-race population and declaring that there is no racism in Brazil since “we are all mutts.” This line of thinking that racial mixing equals the absence of racism in Brazil ...
